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To open the register click on the MGR button on the top and near the right, and then on the "Open" button on the right side of the screen near the top.

i18n

Internationalisation (I18n)

Localisation (L10n) of POS application is straightforward. You only have to provide your locale properties files in \applications\pos\config\.There is an internationalized version of POS. The purpose is primarily for demo but everyone has to begin ;o)
See i10n of POS application

Hints from:

http://lists.ofbiz.org/pipermail/users/2005-February/thread.html Search for "pos "

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Some comments pulled from the mailing list and added since

I found STAR (serial) receipt printers to be the best; a cash drawer which plugs into the back of the printer works great. As for scanners, use a keyboard wedge scanner and a keyboard or USB MSR. The POS devices we used had MSR built in, not exactly sure how it was configured, but in the end it send the signal through the keyboard device.

A term pole display will need to be implemented, as this is not currently supported. However, it shouldn't be very difficult which the base which is there today.

Touch screen is configured on the OS level. ELO based devices work on Linux.

The multiple drawers can be thru the serial. most are thru the parallel port. Gets tricky if you have a parallel device as well.

Touch screens can use the keyboard wedge as well.

The model we used for testing was a DigiCom iPOS435 with a side-mounted MSR. Our particular units had Celeron 850MHz processors and 512MB of RAM. Performance was adequate, but I don't think I could call it "fast". (OS - Gentoo, Fedora; DB - postgres)

You may want to compare the ipos430 spec to whatever you're looking at currently. Aside from the speed, it is a very nice unit.

For printers we used a basic Star Micronics thermal (model TSP600), which worked out just fine during testing, though I can't comment on long-term reliability.

Beware with wedge scanners not self-powered. I had a problem with a Dell Dimension 4600 (too weak keyboard alimentation I think) and a Zebex 3080. No problem with the USB model.

_I've used Metrologic scanners (tabletop & handheld) almost exclusively for the past 5 years with a variety of Dell's and custom built machines. I've never had a problem with the keyboard wedge versions. They all had their own power source. I don't know if the Zebex scanners come with their own power source but if not this could definitely be an issue._

Deployed OK on FC3-XFC4 with a Star TSP600 printer using serial, MetroLogic keyboard wedge scanner and MultiQ 156 serial touch screen using mutouch drivers. Cash draw linked into the printer and operates fine. No MSR requirements so not tested.

 How setup the Epson JavaPOS ADK 1.80~1.82 for OFBiz?! 

Posted by cedar at May 10, 2007 03:25 |

I am not a developer or user of OFBiz,  

On May.8, I got a inquiry about Epson JavaPOS setting problem. So I went to the customer in the afternoon, then found the end user is BERTELSMANN.

There was a guy from India. They use Apache's Open Source CRM application, called OFBiz!
It's mainly a project for CRM, ERP, or something others for business. But it also inlcudes a POS
application which could be running alone, it means it could be installed on one PC and working
without net connection.

Here I want to explain a little about how to setup the Epson JavaPOS ADK for TM printer:
On WindowsXP, and I believe the process on Linux is similiar

Step 1. Install the JavaSE which version you like. I use jdk1.5.0_09;

Step 2. Then installed the "Epson JavaPOS ADK 1.82" (or 1.81, 1.80, any version suppor jpos18-control; and copy the "epsonJposService182.jar, epsonJposServiceCommon.jar" to /ofbiz/applications/pos/lib;

Step 3. Now modified the jpos.xml file, under /ofbiz/applications/pos/config; I post a sample here:
It uses a TM-U220D on COM1 port, please remember to keep the jpos182 or 180 same as the file you using under ./pos/lib;

    <JposEntry logicalName="TM-U220D">
        <creation factoryClass="jp.co.epson.jpos182.util.EpsonJposServiceInstanceFactory"
            serviceClass="jp.co.epson.jpos182.ptr.U220D"/>
        <vendor name="SEIKO EPSON" url="http://www.epson.co.jp"/>
        <jpos category="POSPrinter" version="1.8"/>
    <product description="EPSON TM-U220D Printer Device Service"
        name="EPSON Services for JavaPOS(TM) Standard" url="http://www.epson.co.jp"/>

        <!-Other non JavaPOS required property (mostly vendor properties and bus specific properties i.e. RS232 )->
        <prop name="dataBits" type="String" value="8"/>
        <prop name="Parity" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="portName" type="String" value="COM1"/>
        <prop name="U375Compatible" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="deviceBus" type="String" value="RS232"/>
        <prop name="DataLen" type="String" value="1"/>
        <prop name="UsedJAI" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="TimeoutTime" type="String" value="5000"/>
        <prop name="baudRate" type="String" value="9600"/>
        <prop name="TwoColor" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="PortType" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="UsedNVRAM" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="StopBit" type="String" value="1"/>
        <prop name="RetryTime" type="String" value="100"/>
        <prop name="ErrorOption" type="String" value="1"/>
        <prop name="ReverseEject" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="SerialPowerWaitTime" type="String" value="500"/>
        <prop name="InputWait" type="String" value="1"/>
        <prop name="AnalysisLevel" type="String" value="1"/>
        <prop name="BufferSize" type="String" value="2"/>
        <prop name="DeviceDesc" type="String" value="EPSON TM-U220D Printer"/>
        <prop name="OutputLength" type="String" value="10"/>
        <prop name="parity" type="String" value="None"/>
        <prop name="stopBits" type="String" value="1"/>
        <prop name="PortName" type="String" value="COM1"/> <!-- Windows -->
        <!-prop name="PortName" type="String" value="/dev/ttyS0"/> <!- Linux -->
        <prop name="ReceiveTimeout" type="String" value="10"/>
        <prop name="TwoByteCharacter" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="Page254UseCode" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="PhysicalDevice" type="String" value="TM-U220D"/>
        <prop name="PaperSize" type="String" value="80"/>
        <prop name="BaudRate" type="String" value="6"/>
        <prop name="Page255UseCode" type="String" value="0"/>
        <prop name="ServiceVersion" type="String" value="1.80"/>
        <prop name="flowControl" type="String" value="None"/>
        <prop name="FlowControl" type="String" value="1"/>
    </JposEntry

Step 4. Install Java CommAPI 2.0, copy the comm.jar to j2se or j2re 's /lib/ext folder.
and copy the javax.comm.properties to j2se or j2re's /lib folder;
and copy the win32com.dll to /windows/system32.

Step 5. Modifiy the pos-containers.xml, which under /framework/base/config:
to make the <property name="Receipt" value="TM-U220D" /> value same as you defined in jpos.xml file.

Now java -jar ofbiz.jar -pos, enjoy it!

Epson JavaPOS ADK 1.82 support these product

DM-D110 DM-D210 DM-D500 DM-Z460/DM-Z461

TM-H5000II TM-H5200 TM-H6000 TM-H6000II TM-H6000II Photo ID TM-H6000II Validation
TM-H6000II with Scanner TM-H6000III TM-J2000/TM-J2100

TM-J7000/TM-J7100 TM-J7500/TM-J7600

TM-L90 TM-P60 TM-T88II TM-T88III TM-T88IIR TM-T90
TM-U210A TM-U220 w/Black Mark Sensor TM-U220A TM-U220B TM-U220D TM-U230 TM-U950

Advice

Never load/mix 2 instances of ADK (eg 1.8x and 1.92) on the same machine

Areas for thought/investigation

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Can you park customer transactions for later recall? If yes and using a central store database it should allow you to pick up again from any till (wink) Just seen on the screen the save/restore buttons are ghosted so there is positive intent but time has not permitted completion yet. Note : This is now in the POS, I (Jacques Le Roux) add it, Ray (Barlow) sponsored it.

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Unfortunately the keyword "POS" is often found in other words and this wiki search engine does not search by whole word so it is quite possible to get results about postgresSQL and proposed proposals etc rather than achieve the positive result for a "POS" keyword search. Many people postulate that only the apostles of higher beings can have a positive influence on search engines, but we all like to think we can achieve the impossible and challenge such statements as preposterous!

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Ray Barlow 13/07/05 Attached is the document we have written for users of the POS system (Till Manual_V2.0). It may be a little bit specific to us in areas and it does have a little customisation i.e. we have added two functional buttons that we thought useful, you can see them on the screenshots.
1) DEL : If you are typing a number on screen and you make a typo this saves pulling the keyboard out to correct it.
2) - (minus) : We use this for quantity corrections, price mods etc.

Jira issue with patch for new buttons:
http://jira.undersunconsulting.com/browse/OFBIZ-619
Ray Barlow 05/12/05
This patch is now committed. Jacques Le Roux 24/5/6

Great Ray,
I will have a look at Till manual. Maybe you can submit your patch in Jira and I will see for i18n interactions or problem, etc. I will look this week for the Enter key problem on Windows...
Jacques Le Roux 28/8/5

Ray,
I will translate (french) and adapt your Till manual and use it, thanks. There is no Enter key problem on Windows. It's because you can't use the Enter key before be logged on (on Linux too). After it works well. So there is no Enter key problem except when login and typing password!
Jacques Le Roux 05/12/5

There is no more problems with enter key (on Windows as on Linux) since revision 490040 (please see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-259 for details)
Jacques Le Roux 04/01/07